Belinda Jeffrey

"So it may sound weird when I say that this book, which is about a seventeen boy who lives in Australia’s Northern Territory and works on a crocodile tour boat, is one of the most affective YA books I’ve read this year and, possibly, ever."weartheoldcoat

"From the very first subdued but loaded sentence, Jeffrey reels in her audience. The tone is bold, startling and brave ... a powerful contribution to juvenile fiction."Australian Book Review

"Such a fun story with so much going on in the illustrations, this book is a real winner on every level for the younger reader."Reading Time

Barry Mundy

Brown Skin Blue

Barry Mundy has brown skin and blue sin and, at seventeen, those two colours define his life. When he gets a job at the Croc-Jumping cruises on the Adelaide River in the Northern Territory, he carries a list of names of the men who could be his father. They’re all dark for different reasons and Barry hungers to know whose blood flows inside him. All he sees when he looks in the mirror is a brown mask that hides a blue secret.

Tom Downs

Big River Little Fish

From the moment Tom Downs was born backwards - the moment of his mother's death - time has held him the wrong way round, like he's caught inside a fractured story. But the thing about the Murray River rising, the thing about Tom's town flooding, and the thing that takes him by surprise, is not what Old Mother Murray takes away, but who she brings back.CLICK HERE TO READ A SAMPLE

Ruby Moon

One Long Thread

I had moths in my chest. A thousand of them drumming with their insistent wings, thumping inside my head. It was the feeling of something struggling to get out, to fly free...Love is like that.

When divorce rips Ruby Moon's family apart and tragedy traps her twin, Sally, in a cocoon from which she might never escape, Ruby learns that love is never simple.